California History Center

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Join us at the California History Center for the first Santa Clara Annual Archives Crawl on Saturday, October 22, 2016 and learn more. Visit each of our eleven participating archives, museum and special collections locations for special displays and programs.

Sunday, May 22, 201611:00 a.m.Japanese American Museum of San Jose535 N. Fifth Street, San José,Second Annual San José J-Town FilmFest.

De Anza College’s California History Center (CHC) announces the premiere of “Digging to Chinatown,” a new documentary video on Heinlenville, Chinatown in San José 1887-1931.“Digging to Chinatown” is a dynamic narrative of an extraordinary Chinese community, buried in history only to surface through excavation. Created by historian Connie Young Yu and videographer Barre Fong, with the sponsorship of the CHC, the documentary uses historic photographs, interviews and never-before-seen images of the archaeological excavation of the Heinlenville site.

Please join us as we pay tribute to Chatham Forbes Sr who passed away in February. He taught history course at the center for over 40 years! He lead several classes to trips to Spain and specialized in different California and local history at De Anza.

Mark Jacobson is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and director of the school’s Atmosphere/Energy Program.

02/18/2016 Day of Remembrance

2016 Day of Remembrance

February 18, 2016, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Campus Center, Conference Rooms A & B14th Annual Day of Remembrance

Lessons Learned from the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and the present danger of "Islamophobia"Featuring:Brice Hamack, Northern California Civil Rights Coordinator, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)Shirin Sinnar, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Join Japanese American communitites throughout the United State in commemorating the date, February 19, 1942, when Executive Order 9066 led to the mass imprisonment of 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry in direct violation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.